Is Matt O'Connor coming back?
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Is Matt O'Connor coming back?
The Mercury say he's a "strong favourite" to lead Tigers next season. http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/matt- ... story.html
Re: Is Matt O'Connor coming back?
Please God no!!!
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Re: Is Matt O'Connor coming back?
+1Scott1 wrote:Please God no!!!
Poor at Tigers and leinster - why would he even be considered? Also he's a backs coach, we need a forwards coach.
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Re: Is Matt O'Connor coming back?
Soggypitch wrote:+1Scott1 wrote:Please God no!!!
Poor at Tigers and leinster - why would he even be considered? Also he's a backs coach, we need a forwards coach.
Not sure how having a backs DOR stops us from also signing a forwards coach?
Re: Is Matt O'Connor coming back?
Hopefully it's lazy journalism! Why hire a crack consultancy team if you're just gonna go for MOC?! Makes no sense to me,if we do have him back it will tell me all I need to know about the club!
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Re: Is Matt O'Connor coming back?
Hopefully not!
This subject is really annoying me now! The names mentioned just aren't good enough!
Soggypitch, it doesn't matter what position the DOR used to play. If he is a former back then he will need to employ a forwards coach.
This subject is really annoying me now! The names mentioned just aren't good enough!
Soggypitch, it doesn't matter what position the DOR used to play. If he is a former back then he will need to employ a forwards coach.
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I'm trying to save the club some money...if we can get a DoR who is also a top forwards coach there would be no need to employ an additional forwards coach. eg. Rob Baxter.ellis9 wrote:Hopefully not!
This subject is really annoying me now! The names just aren't good enough!
Soggypitch, it doesn't matter what position the DOR used to play. If he is a former back then he will need to employ a forwards coach.
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Re: Is Matt O'Connor coming back?
ELLis 9, it may be annoying you but it is a name in the mix. MOC did have a successful time at Tigers and left of his own choice to join Leinster.
Not sure that he would be the right choice in my opinion, but he has a proven record at Tigers.
Not sure that he would be the right choice in my opinion, but he has a proven record at Tigers.
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Re: Is Matt O'Connor coming back?
Id rather have Jake White any day of the week!
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Re: Is Matt O'Connor coming back?
Consultancy = Give me your watch & I'll tell you the time for a fee ( and you will finish up knowing what you knew anyway)Scott1 wrote:Hopefully it's lazy journalism! Why hire a crack consultancy team if you're just gonna go for MOC?! Makes no sense to me,if we do have him back it will tell me all I need to know about the club!
Which is that MOC should not be let anywhere near this parish.
Re: Is Matt O'Connor coming back?
Tigerbeat, none of the names have been good enough though!
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Dear Scott, while we may differ on some issues, we are 100% on this one. To have a coach I consider to be mediocre back as DOR will tell me the BoD are braindead and the club is sailing blithely up the brown creek.Scott1 wrote:Hopefully it's lazy journalism! Why hire a crack consultancy team if you're just gonna go for MOC?! Makes no sense to me,if we do have him back it will tell me all I need to know about the club!
I do not agree with Tigerbeat, as my eyes and the quality of play told me otherwise (ad nauseam from me at the time, sorry)and IMO we succeeded because we had some darn good players who knew to play what was in front of them when the tactics were rubbish (hence the famous post Chiefs meeting and episodes of Flood changing tactics on the park).
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Nottingham 1995-2000
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Where has this agenda that he was poor for us come from? When he left us we were champions. We've not got to a final since. The one criticism leveled at him was that the play made the defence a bit loose, but to say he was poor is completely disingenuous. He left because he was approached to take a rather prestigious role.
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My rugby criticism was that our playbook was one-dimensional and inflexible (my posts must be archived somewhere!). He was not the only architect of our success BTW, indeed I credit the players we had at the time as being the main factor, not to mention other coaches and the DOR.
Leicester Tigers 1995-
Nottingham 1995-2000
Swansea (Whites) 1988-95
A game played on grass in the open air by teams of XV.
Nottingham 1995-2000
Swansea (Whites) 1988-95
A game played on grass in the open air by teams of XV.
Re: Is Matt O'Connor coming back?
Undoubtedly. Far more to it than just O'Connor.jgriffin wrote:My rugby criticism was that our playbook was one-dimensional and inflexible (my posts must be archived somewhere!). He was not the only architect of our success BTW, indeed I credit the players we had at the time as being the main factor, not to mention other coaches and the DOR.
But Cockers rated him highly for a reason. Leinster approached him for a reason. He's good - and his departure coincided with the end of our era of dominance.